A UCSF team develops a new drug for malaria that could address one of the disease's biggest challenges - the spread of parasites that resist the most commonly-used medications.

Award-winning UCSF mentors Judith Hellman and Tor Neilands share their keys to success: deep commitment, individualized ...

Records from millions of patients at University of California health centers found correlations between endometriosis, one of the most common diseases in women, and a bounty of other diseases.

Researchers discovered that a different part of the brain handles stringing sounds and words together into coherent sentences. The information could help people who have had strokes and lost the ...

UC San Francisco’s Paul Farmer African Initiative for Research (PFAIR) supports African scientists in infectious disease ...

UCSF’s Joseph Pierre, MD, unveils why even bright minds embrace false information. His new book, "False," dissects cognitive ...

UCSF Medical Center has been ranked among the country’s best hospitals in adult care in U.S. News & World Report’s ...

Microglia, a type of brain immune cell, can gobble up amyloid beta protein, which clumps together into toxic aggregates during Alzheimer's disease.

This is part of our UCSF People series, highlighting employees from across UCSF with diverse roles and backgrounds through a ...

Chaz Langelier and team discover a partial explanation for why lupus gets better as patients age. It's because inflammation-related genes get muffled - the opposite of what usually happens in healthy ...

A $100 million matching grant from the Weill Family Foundation is bringing together two leading cancer centers to launch the ...